Players must be rated 2000 FIDE or 2200 CFC to participate in the Crown Section.
FIDE ratings will be used for seeding and pairing purposes.
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Starting rank
| No. | | | Name | ID | FideID | FED | RtgI | RtgN |
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| 1 | | IM | Noritsyn, Nikolay | 132534 | 2604922 | CAN | 2463 | 2591 |
| 2 | | IM | Atanasov, Anthony | 156079 | 2623897 | CAN | 2441 | 2577 |
| 3 | | IM | Plotkin, Mark | 141086 | 2611651 | CAN | 2370 | 2512 |
| 4 | | IM | Ivanov, Mike | 140557 | 2613158 | CAN | 2367 | 2419 |
| 5 | | | Razin, Vadim | 187107 | 14119463 | CAN | 2336 | 2462 |
| 6 | | FM | Noritsyn, Sergey | 146893 | 2616408 | CAN | 2290 | 2459 |
| 7 | | IM | Kot, Emanuel | 167543 | 2640376 | CAN | 2283 | 2376 |
| 8 | | FM | Plotkin, Victor | 142063 | 2606674 | CAN | 2283 | 2371 |
| 9 | | CM | Moses, Neil | 170949 | 2640627 | CAN | 2222 | 2321 |
| 10 | | CM | Malakar, Saarthak | 173204 | 30974291 | CAN | 2206 | 2340 |
| 11 | | FM | Jaferian, Koosha | 174318 | 12507440 | CAN | 2196 | 2374 |
| 12 | | | Gavrilin, Roman | 175671 | 54104564 | CAN | 2153 | 2313 |
| 13 | | CM | Xu, Zhihan (Samuel) | 176071 | 2654261 | CAN | 2146 | 1987 |
| 14 | | | Zhang, Samuel | 171147 | 30942993 | CAN | 2140 | 2313 |
| 15 | | | Yang, Larry | 164823 | 2637618 | CAN | 2110 | 2268 |
| 16 | | CM | Abrahams, Daniel | 134333 | 2606879 | CAN | 2098 | 2210 |
| 17 | | | Huang, Youhe | 159428 | 2629445 | CAN | 2094 | 2282 |
| 18 | | | Zhao, Jeffrey R. | 157007 | 2627450 | CAN | 2094 | 2226 |
| 19 | | FM | Marchand, Calix | 170958 | 2640856 | CAN | 2088 | 2317 |
| 20 | | | Dhaliwal, Jaipreet Singh | 172163 | 2647699 | CAN | 2086 | 2247 |
| 21 | | FM | Findlay, Ian | 101737 | 2600226 | CAN | 2065 | 2213 |
| 22 | | | Gao, Raymond | 156480 | 2629429 | CAN | 2056 | 2239 |
| 23 | | | Qian, Eric | 167975 | 2637774 | CAN | 2047 | 2215 |
| 24 | | | Yao, Henry | 166273 | 2634929 | CAN | 2035 | 2240 |
| 25 | | | Wang, Bingfei | 172444 | 8618585 | CAN | 2025 | 2237 |
| 26 | | CM | Gao, Heye | 166066 | 2638223 | CAN | 2024 | 2231 |
| 27 | | | Zhang, Daniel | 163312 | 2637820 | CAN | 2022 | 2188 |
| 28 | | WFM | Deepak, Laksshana | 175714 | 25980548 | CAN | 2010 | 2206 |
| 29 | | | Yin, Zeming | 179583 | 2649098 | CAN | 1993 | 2202 |
| 30 | | WFM | Qiao, Cindy | 155864 | 2620243 | CAN | 1953 | 2225 |
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